Meet the world’s animals.

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• Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush Catharus mexicanus

  

  The Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush has a black head, brown back, and orange bill and legs. It occurs in humid forest understory and is resident in Bocas del Toro, Panama.

• Vietnamese Greenfinch Chloris monguilloti

  This small finch has a dark head and bright yellow wing panels. It lives in pine forests in southern Vietnam's highlands and forages in small flocks.

• Sclater's Tyrannulet Phyllomyias sclateri

  This roughly 12 cm tyrannulet lives in montane forests on the eastern side of the southern Andes. It forages in the middle and upper forest strata and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.

• Chestnut-capped Blackbird Chrysomus ruficapillus

  The Chestnut-capped Blackbird lives in South American wetlands. The male has a black body with a rufous-brown head, neck, and chest; the female is olive-brown with black streaks.

• Fulvous Babbler Argya fulva

  The Fulvous Babbler is a resident bird of dry North African scrub. It has brown plumage, a pale neck, and a long tail.

• Galapagos Petrel Pterodroma phaeopygia

  The Galapagos Petrel breeds in the humid highlands of the Galapagos Islands and ranges widely over the sea to find food.

• Black-banded Flycatcher Ficedula timorensis

  A forest flycatcher of Timor. It searches dense undergrowth for insects, usually alone or in pairs.

• Bank Myna Acridotheres ginginianus

  The Bank Myna is a starling with a dark tufted cap and orange around the eyes, bill and legs. A study in northern Bangladesh found breeding colonies along riverbanks and similar sites.

• Eastern Clapper Lark Corypha fasciolata

  This lark uses open grassland in southern Africa. Rufous tones are usual across much of its range, while birds in northern Namibia and northern Botswana are paler.

• Black-throated Magpie-Jay Cyanocorax colliei

  This large magpie-jay is native to Mexico. It uses tropical deciduous and secondary forest and shrubland, and is omnivorous.

• Black-bellied Firefinch Lagonosticta rara

  The male is deep red and black, while the female is red and olive brown. It searches for small seeds on the ground and uses savanna, grassland, and cultivated areas.

• Biscutate Swift Streptoprocne biscutata

  It ranges through eastern Brazil into northeastern Argentina. In southern Brazil it nests on cave walls and in crevices, and its chicks grow gray first feathers.

• Belford's Honeyeater Melidectes belfordi

  This large honeyeater inhabits high-elevation forests of New Guinea's central ranges. White scaling on the back and a stripe across the black head are useful field marks.

• Streaked Weaver Ploceus manyar

  A weaver of the Indian subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia, the Streaked Weaver may gather in flocks in grassy habitats.

• Least Nighthawk Chordeiles pusillus

  This small nighthawk flies by night over open grassland and catches airborne invertebrates. A breeding record in Misiones, Argentina, also describes one female and a nest on the ground.

• Javan Sunbird Aethopyga mystacalis

  A sunbird of forests and secondary growth on Java. Males are red, while females are duller grey-olive; both feed on nectar and small arthropods.

• Mitred Parakeet Psittacara mitratus

  The Mitred Parakeet is a green parakeet with a red face and a long tail. Its native range is on the eastern Andean foothills of southern South America, while escaped birds have formed local feral populations in parts of the United States.

• Black Parrot Coracopsis nigra

  A fairly large black parrot found in and around forests. Its loud calls are musical whistles.

• Orange-fronted Fruit Dove Ptilinopus aurantiifrons

  The Orange-fronted Fruit Dove lives in lowlands near the coast of New Guinea. It has a large orange patch on the forehead and a grey collar, and mainly eats fruit.

• Black-bellied Wren Pheugopedius fasciatoventris

  The throat and chest are white, a black band crosses the upper chest, and the belly is black with white bars. In Panama’s moist forests it nests in low vine tangles.

• Grey-throated Martin Riparia chinensis

  This small swallow ranges from Central to Southeast Asia. In Hong Kong, records are from above open country.

• Spotted Owl Strix occidentalis

  The Spotted Owl is a large owl of western North American forests. It silently hunts small mammals at night.

• Dusky Moorhen Gallinula tenebrosa

  A dark waterbird that forages among wetland plants; when it searches on land, it flicks its tail and reveals its white undertail.

• Wing-banded Antbird Myrmornis torquata

  This ground-foraging antbird was documented in a French Guiana breeding study. The paper notes a throat-color difference between the sexes and records birds searching leaf litter in humid mature forest.